Henry Clay Bate, Civil War Veteran, Sumner Co., TN
Henry Clay Bate Adjutant, 5th Cavalry Battalion 28 July 1839---2 May 1917
"...these dead shall not have died in vain."
Abraham Lincoln, 1863
"Made Adjutant. Transferred to 5th Cavalry Battalion. Known after as 1st Tennessee Cavalry. (Carter's). Ferguson's Sumner County, Tennessee in the Civil War, p. 41.
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